Chapter 1: The Forbidden Prison
The Forbidden Heaven Prison is the strictest prison in the Heavenly Realm, and it is full of powerful criminals, and it has always been heavily guarded.
In one of the cells in the deepest part of the prison, a young man was sealed.
He was chained to a stone bed and his limbs were nailed to death with huge nails.
In other cells, countless prisoners were being tortured, and all kinds of wails, roars, and screams could be heard in the distance.
But the sounds did not affect the man in the slightest, he was sleeping profusely, snoring slightly, as if he was lying in his bedroom.
"Da Da Da Da~" Suddenly, in the corridor outside the cell, a series of dense footsteps sounded, and an invisible oppressive force rolled in.
"Bang Chang~" The sealing formation on the cell door fluctuated for a while, and it was slowly opened, and a beautiful woman walked into the cell.
She has a noble temperament and extraordinary grace, like a proud woman of the sky, but she holds a leather whip in her hand.
After her, more than a dozen equally beautiful and noble women streamed in.
They gathered around the stone bed, staring coldly down at the bound man.
The woman at the head stepped forward, raised one leg, stepped on his chest, and looked down at him from above: "Huang Quan, we want to conceive your child, if you are willing to cooperate well, you can avoid the pain of flesh and skin!"
After saying that, she volleyed a whip in the air, making a sharp sound of breaking the air, full of deterrence.
"Don't make noise! I'm going to sleep. Huang Quan still had his eyes closed, and he muttered impatiently, as if he had been woken up from a sweet dream.
"You're looking for death!" the woman sneered, raised her leather whip high, and jerked it down.
"Papapa~" The whip rained down on Huang Quan's body, drawing out blood marks.
Huang Quan's face twitched slightly, but he endured no sound and continued to sleep.
In a short time, he was beaten and bruised, and even the stone bed was stained with blood.
A steady stream of white light poured out from the stone bed, quickly healing his injuries, leaving him unable to die even if he wanted to, and had to endure the torture forever.
After being whipped for a while, the woman saw that Huang Quan's breath was a lot weaker, and finally stopped, forcibly pinched Huang Quan's mouth, leaned up, and sucked hard.
A red light sucked out of Huang Quan's mouth and was swallowed by her.
She turned her head to look at the other dozen or so women, and said, "Go and absorb his life essence, refine it into the womb, and conceive a fetus, as long as you can conceive his child, you can get the emperor's reward!"
The other women stepped forward in turn, eagerly pinching Huang Quan's mouth open and absorbing his life essence.
"Mengmeng, it's your turn. The woman at the head turned to look at the last woman.
The woman named "Mengmeng" nodded, strode over to Huang Quan's side, leaned over and kissed him, absorbing his life essence.
Suddenly, something was stuffed into Huang Quan's mouth!
This woman named "Mengmeng" actually quietly stuffed something hidden in her mouth into his mouth!
Huang Quan still didn't open his eyes, and continued to sleep quietly, without showing any expression.
All of this happened under the watchful eye of a group of people around him, but no one noticed anything unusual, only as if Mengmeng was absorbing the life essence of Huangquan.
In front of everyone's eyes, an object from the outside world just fell into a high-security cell.
Mengmeng finished absorbing the essence of life and retreated without changing his face.
"Let's go!" The woman at the head of the group whipped Huang Quan a few more times, and then led the women to leave.
The cell was quiet again, and only Huang Quan was the only one left.
He waited patiently for a while, until the footsteps outside the cell had completely faded away, and then he moved his tongue to find out what was in his mouth.
It was a small bead, and it should have been a very powerful treasure, otherwise the woman named "Mengmeng" would not have ventured to bring it in to him.
Powerful treasures usually require a drop of blood to recognize the lord before they can be used, and although Huang Quan is tied and nailed all over his body, unable to move, the blood-dripping ritual can be performed in his mouth.
He immediately bit the tip of his tongue, and blood gushed out and touched the small bead.
In an instant, the little bead shook violently, sucking the blood from his mouth.
"Boom" There was a loud bang in his head, and his eyes changed, and he came to another place.
It was cloudy, gray and desolate, and the wind was howling.
He was standing on the edge of a cliff with a huge abyss below, bottomless, floating in a fog that made it impossible to see what was below.
In the depths of the darkness, there were countless screams of terrible pain, and the scalp was numb when I heard it, as if countless people were suffering cruel torture under the abyss, and they could not be relieved.
He looked down at his body, which was translucent, just a soul, and his physical body had not come with him.
Suddenly, a gust of wind came up from the abyss, and the fog churned violently, as if something was flying up below.
Huang Quan took a few steps back, staring warily ahead.
"Whoosh!" a figure flew out of the mist beneath the abyss.
This is a middle-aged man, with a majestic body, exuding boundless momentum, as if he is the overlord between heaven and earth, and all things must be subjugated at his feet.
As soon as he appeared, the endless wails beneath the abyss all came to an abrupt end, and they were silent.
The middle-aged man landed in front of Huang Quan, a pair of bright eyes, staring straight at him.
The air seemed to freeze, and even the yin wind stopped blowing.
"My child!" the middle-aged man spat out a sentence with a slight excitement.
"Huh?" Huang Quan frowned.
"Son, I am your father. The middle-aged man's majesty dissipated in an instant, turned into a kind smile, his eyes were gentle, and he reached out and touched Huang Quan's head.
"But I've never met my father, how can I trust you?" Huang Quan took a step back guardedly.
The middle-aged man stared at Huang Quan, blinking slowly, the white part of his eyes turned black, and the black pupil in the middle turned white.
"You're also the Underworld?!" Huang Quan was surprised, his own eyes could become like this, this was a trait unique to the Underworld, but unfortunately he had never seen it in the second person.
"Of course!" the middle-aged man nodded: "After everything in the world dies, its soul will go to the underworld and accept the rule of the master of the underworld. We Hades are the descendants of the Lord of the Underworld, but unfortunately after the death of the Lord of the Underworld, our Hades withered and declined, almost extinct. ”
The middle-aged man sighed and continued: "Outsiders think that you are the last of the Hades, so the Emperor of Heaven will arrest you at all costs, seal you in the Forbidden Heaven Prison, and arrange for a group of women to find ways to conceive your child and obtain the inheritance of the Lord of the Underworld. In fact, there is still a small number of Hades who survived and hid in unknown places, and I am the patriarch of this generation. ”
"Then what is the purpose of you going to great lengths to get my soul here?" Huang Quan asked.
"Giving you a big gift is also making you take a responsibility. The middle-aged man turned his head to look at the abyss below, "Do you want to see what is down there?"
Huang Quan turned his head to see that the abyss was still obscured by the mist, and he couldn't see what was below.
The middle-aged man stretched out a hand and waved it lightly towards the abyss.
The next moment, the fog of the abyss quickly dissipated, revealing a spectacular scene-
I saw that the cliff walls on both sides of the abyss were covered with dense caves, and countless souls were pouring out of those caves, like billions of waterfalls.
Billions of soul waterfalls converged into a rolling torrent, roaring and surging below the abyss.
Every wave is a struggling soul, with a painful and distorted expression, and hundreds of millions of souls are struggling in the torrent, like countless drowning people. But they were powerless to stop, so they were swept away by the torrent and rushed to the end of the abyss.
At the end of the abyss, there stood a huge portal, burned red, with a large line written on the lintel - Gates of Hell.
In the center of the portal was a monstrous maw, devouring the torrent of souls.
Behind the portal, majestic and precipitous volcanoes were faintly revealed, and red magma soared into the sky, burning the sky dark red, and countless burning meteorites fell with a long tail flame......
"Roar~" Suddenly, in a cave not far away, a huge soul came out.
It was a giant dragon, it exuded black energy, its head and horns were hideous, and its wings spread casually, it obscured a large part of the sky, unruly and contemptuous of everything.
"Dark Demon Dragon!" Huang Quan recognized, it was one of the four top dragon clans, the earth crumbled everywhere it passed, the demonic qi was monstrous, and everything withered, no matter what world it appeared, it would cause a tragic catastrophe.
But here, the dark dragon lost its majesty and crashed into the torrent of souls below.
It flapped its wings as hard as it could, roared wildly, struggled in the torrent of souls, and rolled out a monstrous wave, but could not break free.
Eventually, it was swallowed up by the massive maws of the Gates of Hell, leaving behind a terrible dragon groan that echoed through the abyss for a long time.
"Chirp~" A painful phoenix chirp sounded, and a majestic bird rushed out of a cave.
The big bird was burning with cyan flames, its feathers were exquisite, and its breath was noble and elegant, like a divine beast descending from heaven among hundreds of millions of souls.
"Phoenix? is not right...... It's a demon phoenix!" Huang Quan stared at the big bird in surprise.
The Demon Phoenix is an extremely rare divine beast that has been constantly migrating among billions of worlds since birth, devouring the origin power of one world after another, causing those worlds to fall into death.
Huang Quan had only heard of this kind of creature in mythology before, but he didn't expect it to really exist in the world.
The phoenix erupted from its mouth in an attempt to fight the falling force, but was eventually drowned in a torrent of souls and swept into the gates of hell.
"No......" There was a roar of anger from a cave, and a majestic figure fell out.
He was wearing a wide dragon robe and a crown, exuding the demeanor of an emperor, and he was a great emperor of all ages.
He is monstrous, looking at any world is the supreme emperor, hundreds of millions of strong people surrender in front of him, the people in the world obey his orders, the dragon face is angry, millions of corpses are ambushed, and thousands of miles of blood are shed.
But after this emperor fell into the soul torrent, he suddenly lost his imperial spirit, and no matter how angry and roared, he could not escape from here, and could only be rushed into the gates of hell.
......
The more Huang Quan looked at it, the more frightened he became, and in the hundreds of millions of caves, all kinds of souls were rushing out all the time.
Some of them are myths and legends of the desolate demon beasts, some are powerful people with monstrous momentum, and some are high emperors and generals......
But when they arrived here, none of them could break free, and even if they had the power to defy the sky, they could only be swallowed by the gates of hell.
"Now, you know what this place is!" the middle-aged man smiled slightly.
"Hell ......," Huang Quan muttered.
Hell is one of the most dangerous areas of the underworld, and all living beings who have unforgivable sins after death will fall into hell to suffer. Hell is imprisoned by countless vicious souls in history, such as peerless demon kings, abyss lords, evil supremes, void trolls, martial emperors, sword saints, demon lords, etc., and even powerful ...... God! They all committed heinous sins during their lifetimes, and according to the severity of their crimes and the strength of their strength, they were locked up in the first to the eighteenth floor, and they were tortured for eternity. Those gods who are high in the eyes of mortals can only fall to the fifteenth level in hell. ”
"Even gods can only fall into the fifteenth layer, so what is the last eighteenth layer of hell?" Huang Quan was curious.
The middle-aged man shook his head: "I don't know, the kings of hell in the past dynasties, no matter how powerful they are, can only explore to the seventeenth layer, and as for what is hidden in the last eighteenth layer, almost no one knows." Many of those levels of existence were personally captured by the Lord of the Underworld back then, leaving no information of a word. ”
"Then what is the purpose of you summoning me here?" Huang Quan asked again.
The middle-aged man stared at Huang Quan with burning eyes, and said solemnly: "I want to hand over hell to you, and you will be in charge." The last generation of the King of Hell is nearing its end, and I have to find a successor for him, but there are not many people around me who can use it. It just so happens that I'm trying to find a way to save you, but the Forbidden Heaven Prison was built by the Creation God King himself back then, and it is difficult to break, so I can only give you a chance to save yourself. ”
The middle-aged man looked at Huang Quan's right hand and continued: "The bead you got is called the Eye of the Underworld, it is an eye left over from the Lord of the Underworld, and only we Underworld can use it, and it has turned into a mark on the palm of your right hand. No matter where you are, you can summon it, go in and out of Hell through it, and even summon the gates of Hell through it. ”
Huang Quan hurriedly looked at his right hand, and there was indeed a faint eyeball-like mark on the palm, the outer ring was black, and the middle pupil was white.
He said thoughtfully, "You mean, let me summon the gates of hell in the Forbidden Heaven Prison, summon these extremely vicious souls, and break through the Forbidden Heaven Prison?"
"No, your strength has been sealed by the Heavenly Emperor, and you can't summon the gates of hell, nor are you enough to command the souls of those powerful people in the world. What's more, the God King left many formations in the Forbidden Heaven Prison back then, and a group of souls alone couldn't break them. ”
The middle-aged man said, pointing to the billions of caves on the cliff wall below, and continued: "The billions of caves in this abyss are connected to billions of worlds. Next, you can choose a cave, enter the corresponding world, take a physical body, and start cultivating again. You have the Eye of Darkness, and it picks a body that best fits your soul. But when the soul is combined with an unfamiliar body, it will change forever and cannot be taken away again. So you only have one chance, and you must cherish it. ”
"I see!" Huang Quan nodded, "In this way, although my physical body is still in the Forbidden Heaven Prison, my soul is free." ”
"That's right, your body will leave a wisp of soul in your body, and you will continue to stay in the Forbidden Heaven Prison, confusing those in the Heavenly Realm. But the Emperor of Heaven has personally cursed your soul, and one day he will find out that your soul has actually escaped, and may track you down. So you can only travel to the most dangerous worlds, where it is possible to escape the tracking of the Celestial Realm, and have unimaginable opportunities for you to grow to a level strong enough to break the Forbidden Prison, rescue your physical body, and even fight against the entire Celestial Realm to achieve revenge. ”
As he spoke, he flicked his robe, took out a thick book and handed it to Huang Quan, saying, "This is the Book of Hell, which records the situation of the first seventeen layers of hell, as well as the sins of each soul in their lifetime. It is a book of ideas, and you can summon it at any time. But you have to remember that you must not turn to the last page!"
Huang Quan stretched out his hands and solemnly took the book.
The cover of the book was old, exuding a black gas, and it was heavy in his hand, as if carrying the sins of all beings.
"Why can't you turn to the last page?" he asked, confused.
The middle-aged man shook his head: "I don't know, the kings of hell in the past will receive this warning. Over the years, even I have been holding back my curiosity and not daring to turn to the last page. Now, I warn you too!"
"Okay! I remember!" Huang Quan nodded, but his heart was more curious.
What exactly is written on the last page of the Book of Hell?
Why can't you flip it through?
It was hard for him to imagine how his father had endured all these years from the torment of curiosity.
The book is in your hand, and you can turn to the last page at any time without any hindrance.
But that illusory warning actually stopped the curiosity of generations of high-level officials of the underworld.
"Quan'er, from now on, hell will be taken over by you, and all the souls in it, no matter how noble their status was in life, will be at your disposal. The secrets of their lives will be known to you, the dark abyss will become your courtyard, and the souls of the powerful will become your servants. You must protect all beings, suppress evil, and purge the universe. ”